Kingdom’s Bloodline

Siblings... killing each other?

Little Barney paused for a moment, his eyes misty.

As if recalling the past.

Hearing this, the guard members behaved differently:

Samir snorted, Belletti and Nai remained silent, Taldin snorted coldly, Bree groaned anxiously, and Cannon, who was walking at the end, even let out a groan.

I saw Naki holding the torch in pain, the flame flickering endlessly:

"Barney, please...after we go out, can we just...forget it?"

Little Barney's brows became deeper and deeper, as if he couldn't understand:

"never mind?"

Naki hummed, and the words spread in the passage, with a seemingly empty feeling:

"You know, find a place, be quiet, spend the rest of your life, forget about Sackel, forget about him..."

Listening to the conversation between the two, Thales suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Sure enough, the next moment, Little Barney's voice suddenly rose!

"Forget about him?"

His footsteps stopped for a few seconds, leading the team behind him into chaos.

"What about the thirty-seven brothers who died in prison?"

I only heard little Barney humming bitterly:

"What about the people who died in the Fuxing Palace back then?"

"The old captain, Tony, my father, what do they do?"

He clutched his sword and shield tightly, with unspeakable misery and anger in his voice:

"Your Majesty and Your Highness... what will they do?"

"What about the blood that the kingdom shed back then?"

Naki was robbed by him and fell silent for a while.

Belletti patted Barney on the shoulder worriedly. The latter shook his head, indicating that he was fine, and then continued to walk and keep up with Semir.

However, just when the worried Thales thought everything was back to normal, Naki's faint voice came again:

"But Barney, did it ever occur to you that the people who died, they might..."

Naki paused, and said with deep intolerance:

"Maybe they don't want to see us repay each other like this, brothers and sisters... Maybe they just want to rest in peace, they just want us to be safe and sound, and they just want everything to go with the wind..."

Thales frowned.

The atmosphere is getting worse and worse.

"Naki," Tardin couldn't help but say:

"Stop talking."

Naki was silent.

Little Barney hummed.

"Gone with the wind..."

He looked deeply at the torch beside him, gradually becoming confused, and then became firm again:

"When my father broke his arms, drained of blood, opened his eyes in pain like a wild dog on the side of the road, and lay silently on the red-stained floor tiles, covered by piles of corpses, he It doesn't look like it's going with the wind."

Little Barney's words were full of anger and pain.

The breathing in the passage became disordered.

"There are more than forty of us, the torture we have suffered, everything we have endured, and the pain we have faced in the past ten years..."

"Over the past ten years, the illusions you have seen with your eyes closed, the past you have dreamed about, the future you have imagined..."

"Think about it again, Sakeel is the chief culprit of all this, but he escaped the crime, deceived the world, and got away with it..."

"Ask yourselves, Naki, you..."

"Can you really let all these go with the wind?"

"Then feel at ease and live the rest of your life confidently?"

Every word he said moved the faces of the guards slightly.

"No."

"At least I can't."

"And it's not brother-in-law."

Little Barney said softly.

"When he, when Sackel abandoned his oath, betrayed the former king, and raised the butcher's knife to us," Little Barney pulled out the blade and said coldly, as if he had abandoned the last trace of emotion:

"He is no longer our brother."

The coldness inside and outside of his words made Naki tremble slightly.

"We will do our best to find him, catch him, and hunt him by any means, no matter where we are, whether it is in the mountains, rivers, oceans or lands, the ends of the earth, the hell on earth,

"Following the footsteps, Little Barney's sword edge slashed across the wall, bringing up the same terrible friction sound as his tone:

"We will force Sackel to answer, let him witness his own fate, and see how his crimes and debts of the past are repaid one by one..."

At that moment, little Barney gritted his teeth:

"Betrayers must pay the price."

Nucky's voice sounded again, this time with a little more anxiety and pleading: "But, Barney!"

"Whether it's your father or the old captain, they don't want such revenge..."

"Naki!" Taldin seemed to be unable to stand Naki's inappropriate persuasion any longer:

"Shut up!"

But little Barney seemed to be aroused by Naki, he sneered and said:

"revenge?"

"No, it's not just revenge."

Little Barney stared at the darkness ahead with a frosty gaze:

"This is the responsibility of us survivors, our obligation, our burden, and the meaning of our lives."

"Only in this way can we face our hearts without shame and regret in the days and nights to come."

Naki no longer responded seriously, he just swallowed his throat and said in a low mood:

"Is it."

A little confused and sad.

At this moment, Samir's footsteps stopped.

"We found it."

He said hoarsely.

Thales was startled, and quickly looked up, only to find that they had come to a brand new room.

The crowd also recovered from the unpleasant conversation just now, and looked around in amazement—even as prisoners, they never had the opportunity to visit the bottom of the prison.

Under the light of the fire, the room looked very empty. There was nothing on the ground except for the collapsed waste wood and stones, but there was an empty shelf leaning against the corner of the wall, the material of which was unknown.

Obviously, there used to be countless shelves piled up here, storing incomparably abundant supplies.

The storage room in the Alchemy Tower.

but now……

"Where's the exit?" Little Barney looked at the empty walls and asked doubtfully.

With a serious face, Semir went straight to the wall opposite the passage:

"See this wall?"

"If Ricky's right, it's a door."

Samir let out a breath, with excitement in his eyes:

"The exit is hidden here. When the entire underground bunker is unfortunately lost and the remaining mages retreat to the storage room, they can still have the last means of escape."

Everyone including Thales came forward in amazement and touched the dusty wall.

Rough to the touch, with a long history.

This huge, empty wall without any seams is actually...

a door?

"Now, we just need to find that special, hidden keyhole," Samir said in a hopeful tone:

"Open this door..."

He turned to Thales:

"Since you can release them, Your Highness."

"I believe the key must be with you?"

Everyone looked at Thales.

Semir's aggressive gaze made Thales very uncomfortable.

But at present, the boy just snorted softly, took out the strange long key from his pocket, and handed it to Semir.

But an accident happened.

The moment Thales stretched out his palm, the other hand quickly cut it sideways!

Under the watchful eyes of the royal guards, the key was snatched away!

The sudden shock made everyone stunned.

"Boom!"

The person who snatched the key stepped forward without hesitation, knocked Nai and Taldin away, opened the distance, turned around and raised his sword, and looked at the stunned people panting.

What?

Thales looked at the man in surprise.

He believed that the guards were not unable to react, but did not expect it at all...

Why...is it him?

But little Barney was the first to react. He subconsciously called the robber's name:

"Nakey!"

"What are you doing?"

In front of Thales, he was extremely shocked to see the chatterbox of the royal guards. Naki, who had always been lively and funny, was holding the key of the dungeon in one hand and the long sword in the other, looking at the rest of the guard tremblingly.

It seems to have pulled the boundaries with them.

Tai Naki.

It's him.

"I'm sorry, Barney," I saw Naki trembling, his face was full of pain and hesitation, and with complicated hatred, he looked straight at Barney:

"but……"

Naki breathed tremblingly, his eyes were empty:

"But I can't, I can't let you open this door."

Thales, who was surprised, noticed that Naki was very abnormal at the moment.

Contrary to his humor and optimism when we first met, his face was pale and his eyes were dark.

It's like a different person.

Little Barney looked at him in disbelief:

"What?"

Naki took a deep breath, raised his eyebrows, and twitched his cheeks, as if he was struggling with something. What he said was neither coherent nor logical:

"Sorry! Everyone!"

I saw him yelling out loud, pointing at everyone with trembling sword tip:

"But I can't let you, especially Barney... go up."

The turn of events left the rest of the royal guard dumbfounded.

Samir's brows were furrowed, Tardin and Nai looked at each other worriedly, Bree's whining became more and more impatient, Cannon seemed to have seen a ghost, and Belletti gritted his teeth.

"Naki... What's the matter with you? Are you sick again?" Taldin tried his best to tighten the tension in his tone and asked tentatively.

fall ill?

Taylor's heart tightened.

Naki looked at the tense Tardin, first showing pain and regret in his eyes.

A second later, his twitching cheeks curved and he smiled strangely:

"Haha, maybe, but I guess I'm... I can't take it anymore."

Unbearable?

Seeing the extremely abnormal Naki, everyone in the guard was in an uproar.

Belletti wanted to approach him quietly, but was forced back by Naki's shaking sword tip.

"Naki, what happened?" Naiyin asked sullenly.

Nucky shivered again. He stared at the keys in his hand, and then at Barney.

"What happened? What happened?"

He raised his head and showed an ugly and painful smile:

"I'm just, I can't, I can't let this idiot Barney go out and screw everything up...everything is fine..."

"I can't let him just go up there ... and do everything he says."

"Whether it's for the living or the dead."

Upon hearing this, little Barney looked at him with a livid face.

Thales still looked at Naki in shock.

This is the member of the avant-garde who came to him first during the rescue.

A moment ago, he was quite normal, wasn't he? He was still arguing with Barney about revenge or letting go, but why now...

"Nakey?"

According to the previous experience of comforting Sackel, Thales handed the long sword to Kuaisheng, carefully raised his hands, indicating that he was not hostile, and said gently:

"Listen, calm down, okay? So what did you see..."

But it was fine if he didn't speak, but when he spoke, Naki trembled again and turned his head to Thales!

"Your Highness, why?" Naki's face was twisted, and the words were slightly crying.

Thales was stunned.

In front of his eyes, Naki was looking at him with an expression he couldn't imagine.

Like... a believer begging for salvation.

Also like... a powerless mortal disappointed in life.

His eyes were full of despair and contradiction.

This confuses him.

"What why?" Thales asked subconsciously.

Naki obviously looked desperate, but forced himself to laugh, and said bitterly:

"We are clearly prepared to spend the rest of our lives in this desperate hell and die silently..."

His voice became hoarse, with a tearing breath:

"But why, why do you have to be cruel and indifferent to appear here, in this hell?"

"Your Highness!"

"Why did you come to us!"

The more Naki spoke, the more excited he became, the tip of his sword kept shaking, and Belletti had to pull Thales back a little.

"Why do you want to send us...back to this ugly and ugly world again?"

Thales stared at him blankly.

Why?

What is he saying?

"Nakey!"

Little Barney, who had experienced shock and confusion, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and all his impatience turned into anger:

"Hand over the keys - don't forget, we're short on time and heavy on our shoulders!"

Little Barney's eyes were burning, and he gritted his teeth and said:

"No matter what you're crazy about, we've stood here for eighteen years, not just for ourselves, not just for our own feelings!"

"If you still have any respect for the dead and your siblings..."

But beyond everyone's expectations...

"Enough, Quill Barney the son of a bitch!"

Naki, who had always been fearful and obedient to Chief Vanguard Barney, exploded in the next moment!

Nucky got emotional and yelled back hysterically:

"You useless bastard! Damn paranoid! The most cruel and senseless murderer!"

Little Barney was stunned for a moment.

kill……

murderer?

For a moment, the resolute and resolute vanguard officer was also in a state of confusion.

Under everyone's unbelievable eyes, Naji looked ferocious and struggled.

"Eighteen years..."

He raised his sword blade, gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words:

"I've had enough of your self-righteousness and smarts..."

Naki stared at the shocked Barney fiercely, pointing his sword at him:

"Enough of your endless preaching and declarations day and night..."

Naki took a deep breath, as if he wanted to express all his embarrassment and anger, and roared loudly:

"Enough of your role model of perseverance and unyielding burden!"

Naki's eyes were red, filled with tears, and he was breathing heavily, seeming to be sobbing or angry.

Everyone in the guards seemed to have never seen Naki like this before, and everyone was caught off guard.

But looking at him like this, Thales felt doubts from the bottom of his heart.

wrong.

The crime of prison river flooded his brain.

Thales began to force himself to think back.

Think back on things that weren't normal.

Since he came to the prison of bones.

All the factors, all the things, all the logic...

wrong.

From the moment he met Sackel, Naki's attitude was very wrong...

No.

Not just there.

earlier.

earlier!

"Nakey."

At this moment, Thales spoke in a daze:

"that song."

Naki's painful expression faltered:

"What?"

His shoulders were shaking violently, his face changed dramatically, and his breathing was chaotic.

Thales remembered.

He finally figured out what was wrong.

In front of everyone, the young man was breathing in a trance, expressing his guess word by word:

"Sakel said just now that he is the only one who knows the truth..."

"And all the bad luck started when he failed to persuade the old king Eddie to prevent him from marrying the Queen Fiosa, who was an old friend who was actually a magician..."

Naki trembled when he heard this!

"but……"

Thales' voice was also trembling slightly, as if he had thought of something terrible:

"But that song," Thales stared blankly at him:

"But the song you sang to comfort Cannon when we first met across the cell..."

Little Barney, Semir, Belletti...the others frowned.

"That's not a coincidence, is it?"

At that moment, as if someone was holding down the air, Naki's breathing calmed down instantly.

In a few seconds, Naji's expression changed from despair and pain to sadness and relief.

He closed his eyes, letting the tears fall.

The next second, Naki pulled the corner of his mouth with difficulty.

"You are perceptive, Your Highness."

In front of everyone's unbelievable eyes, I saw Naji weeping, and said with a sad smile:

"No."

"that is not."